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Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period (2009)

by Michelle Mercer(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1416559299 (ISBN13: 9781416559290)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Free Press

review 1: I didn't expect this account of a fabulously talented and interesting musician - Joni Mitchell - to be so slight and difficult to read. There are also some annoying big assumptions by the author what this or that "means" or "why" Joni did this or that which did not seem well supported or logical. I was also disappointed there was almost no detail about Joni's daughter. This book did not flow well at all. I think even a die hard Joni Mitchell fan would find it tiresome.
review 2: Like all Joni fans, my relationship with her is soul deep & heartfelt. I love her. She is my mother - my sister. She is me. My 1st Joni album was a gift from my high school boyfriend in the first, blushing days of our tumultuous relationship. I tormented him with my indecision and J... moreoni was the sound track that weaved itself around us.I became convinced the 1st time I heard Little Green that I was she - nothing else made any sense! I was the girl child Joni gave birth to and, heartbroken, had put up for adoption! My fourteen year old self rejoiced! Joni was my mother! That explained how I had ended up in a family so devoid of all and any .... creativity, joy, longing, angst, soul....(14, remember)and I carried my secret about me like a cloak of protection from the mundane. Eventually, I realized that, of course, Joni was not my mother. She was something much, much more. She was my muse ... my role model ... she sang my story in her songs and gave me a glimpse of a life that promised more than my mid-western upbringing would allow.My high school boyfriend & I broke up for the last time when we were 24. He may not have loved Joni as I did but he introduced me to her & for that I will always be grateful.My adoration for Joni has never ended and to Ms. Mercer I say 'Thank you!' for reminding me that there are so many reasons why I love her.*Sad note - just days after posting this, I learned that my H.S.B.F. had passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. He was a gifted musician ... a dreamer ... a drifter ... a poet and I will never forget. less

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